2016–17 KHL season

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2016–2017 KHL season
League Kontinental Hockey League
Sport Ice hockey
Duration 22 August 2016 – 16 April 2017
Number of games 60
Number of teams 29
Regular season
Continental Cup winner CSKA Moscow
Top scorer Sergei Mozyakin
Playoffs
Western champions SKA Saint Petersburg
  Western runners-up Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Eastern champions Metallurg Magnitogorsk
  Eastern runners-up Ak Bars Kazan
Gagarin Cup
Finals champions SKA Saint Petersburg
  Runners-up Metallurg Magnitogorsk
KHL seasons

The 2016–17 KHL season was the ninth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The season started on 22 August 2016 and ended on 16 April 2017.[1][2] SKA Saint Petersburg defeated Metallurg Magnitogorsk four games to one to win their second Gagarin Cup Championship in three seasons.

KHL is on the 3rd place by attendance in Europe, averaging 6,121 spectators.[3]

Team changes

The Chinese club Kunlun Red Star joined the league, to become its 29th team.[4][5]

Divisions and regular season format

In this season, like in 2015–16 season, each team will play every other team once at home and once on the road, giving a total of 56 games (28 at home, 28 on the road), plus 4 additional games (2 at home, 2 on the road) played by each team against rival clubs from its own conference. Thus, each team played a total of 60 games in the regular season.[2][6]

How the teams are divided into divisions and conferences is shown in the table below.[7][8][9][10]

Western Conference Eastern Conference
Bobrov Division Tarasov Division Kharlamov Division Chernyshev Division
Flag of Belarus Dinamo Minsk Flag of Russia CSKA Moscow Flag of Russia Ak Bars Kazan Flag of Russia Admiral Vladivostok
Flag of Latvia Dinamo Riga Flag of Russia Dynamo Moscow Flag of Russia Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg Flag of Russia Amur Khabarovsk
Flag of Finland Jokerit Flag of Russia HC Sochi Flag of Russia Lada Togliatti Flag of Russia Avangard Omsk
Flag of Croatia Medveščak Zagreb Flag of Russia Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Flag of Russia Metallurg Magnitogorsk Flag of Kazakhstan Barys Astana
Flag of Russia SKA Saint Petersburg Flag of Russia Severstal Cherepovets Flag of Russia Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk Flag of China Kunlun Red Star
Flag of Slovakia Slovan Bratislava Flag of Russia Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Flag of Russia Traktor Chelyabinsk Flag of Russia Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Flag of Russia Spartak Moscow Flag of Russia Vityaz Podolsk Flag of Russia Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk Flag of Russia Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Flag of Russia Sibir Novosibirsk

League standings

Western Conference

Tarasov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Goals Pts
HK CSKA Moscow (1) 60 41 2 1 7 1 8 183:110 137
HK Dynamo Moscow (3) 60 29 5 5 5 0 16 164:111 112
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (4) 60 32 1 3 3 3 18 163:130 110
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod (6) 60 27 3 5 3 4 18 145:124 104
HC Vityaz (7) 60 26 3 4 5 0 22 162:158 97
HC Sochi (9) 60 24 2 5 1 1 27 139:145 88
Severstal Cherepovets (11) 60 18 3 2 4 6 27 133:163 74
Bobrov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Goals Pts
SKA Saint Petersburg (2) 60 39 2 5 4 2 8 249:114 137
HC Dinamo Minsk (5) 60 27 3 7 2 2 19 171:150 105
Jokerit Helsinki (8) 60 23 3 3 6 6 19 149:165 93
HC Slovan Bratislava (10) 60 22 4 3 3 2 26 144:166 85
KHL Medveščak Zagreb (12) 60 19 2 2 2 2 32 138:186 69
HK Spartak Moscow (13) 60 18 1 2 3 3 33 125:168 66
Dinamo Riga (14) 60 11 4 6 4 1 34 116:158 58


Eastern Conference

Chernyshev Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Goals Pts
Avangard Omsk (2) 60 30 3 5 1 2 19 156:127 109
Barys Astana (5) 60 25 6 0 1 2 26 151:167 90
Salavat Yulaev Ufa (6) 60 21 2 4 10 3 20 169:174 88
Admiral Vladivostok (7) 60 24 2 1 7 1 25 147:153 86
HC Kunlun Red Star (8) 60 24 2 2 3 0 29 139:144 83
HC Sibir Novosibirsk (9) 60 20 2 6 2 5 25 133:138 83
Amur Khabarovsk (12) 60 20 1 4 4 2 29 110:129 76
Metallurg Novokuznetsk (15) 60 8 1 5 2 2 42 97:194 40
Kharlamov Division GP W OTW SOW SOL OTL L Goals Pts
Metallurg Magnitogorsk (1) 60 36 1 4 4 2 13 197:135 124
Ak Bars Kazan (3) 60 29 3 6 2 2 18 155:127 109
Traktor Chelyabinsk (4) 60 27 2 1 7 3 19 130:120 97
HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk (10) 60 20 1 7 2 2 28 143:155 80
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg (11) 60 19 1 5 5 5 25 139:165 79
HC Ugra (13) 60 18 2 2 3 1 34 112:148 66
HC Lada Togliatti (14) 60 16 1 4 4 3 32 146:180 65


Gagarin Cup Playoffs

Gagarin Cup

The playoffs started on 21 February 2017, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and end with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final on 16 April 2017.[2]

  Conference Quarter-Finals Conference Semi-Finals Conference Finals Gagarin Cup Finals
                                     
1  Flag of Russia Metallurg Mg 4     1  Flag of Russia Metallurg Mg 4  
8  Flag of China Kunlun Red Star 1     5  Flag of Kazakhstan Barys 0  


2  Flag of Russia Avangard 4 Eastern Conference
7  Flag of Russia Admiral 2  
    1  Flag of Russia Metallurg Mg 4  
  3  Flag of Russia Ak Bars 0  
3  Flag of Russia Ak Bars 4  
6  Flag of Russia Salavat Yulaev 1  
4  Flag of Russia Traktor 2   2  Flag of Russia Avangard 2
5  Flag of Kazakhstan Barys 4     3  Flag of Russia Ak Bars 4  


  1  Flag of Russia Metallurg Mg 1
(Pairings are re-seeded after the first round.)
  2  Flag of Russia SKA 4
1  Flag of Russia CSKA 4     1  Flag of Russia CSKA 2
8  Flag of Finland Jokerit 0     4  Flag of Russia Lokomotiv 4  
2  Flag of Russia SKA 4
7  Flag of Russia Vityaz 0  
  4  Flag of Russia Lokomotiv 0
  2  Flag of Russia SKA 4  
3  Flag of Russia Dynamo Msk 4  
6  Flag of Russia Torpedo 1   Western Conference
4  Flag of Russia Lokomotiv 4   2  Flag of Russia SKA 4
5  Flag of Belarus Dinamo Mn 1     3  Flag of Russia Dynamo Msk 1  

Final standings

Rank Team
1 Flag of Russia SKA Saint Petersburg
2 Flag of Russia Metallurg Magnitogorsk
3 Flag of Russia Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
4 Flag of Russia Ak Bars Kazan
5 Flag of Russia CSKA Moscow
6 Flag of Russia Dynamo Moscow
7 Flag of Russia Avangard Omsk
8 Flag of Kazakhstan Barys Astana
9 Flag of Belarus Dinamo Minsk
10 Flag of Russia Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
11 Flag of Russia Traktor Chelyabinsk
12 Flag of Russia Vityaz
13 Flag of Finland Jokerit
14 Flag of Russia Salavat Yulaev Ufa
15 Flag of Russia Admiral Vladivostok
16 Flag of China Kunlun Red Star
17 Flag of Russia Sochi
18 Flag of Slovakia Slovan Bratislava
19 Flag of Russia Sibir Novosibirsk
20 Flag of Russia Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
21 Flag of Russia Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
22 Flag of Russia Amur Khabarovsk
23 Flag of Russia Severstal Cherepovets
24 Flag of Croatia Medveščak Zagreb
25 Flag of Russia Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
26 Flag of Russia Spartak Moscow
27 Flag of Russia Lada Togliatti
28 Flag of Latvia Dinamo Riga
29 Flag of Russia Metallurg Novokuznetsk

References

  1. ↑ "Schedule for 2016/2017 season confirmed". 24 March 2016. http://en.khl.ru/news/2016/03/24/242303.html. Retrieved 3 April 2016. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Mark your Calendars! 2016-17 Season Schedule". 15 July 2016. http://en.khl.ru/news/2016/07/15/310345.html. Retrieved 3 April 2016. 
  3. ↑ "KHL is on the 3rd place by attendance". IIHF. http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/attendance-2016-2017/. Retrieved June 4, 2017. 
  4. ↑ "Enter the Dragon! Beijing club to join KHL". 25 June 2016. http://en.khl.ru/news/2016/06/25/308623.html. Retrieved 26 June 2016. 
  5. ↑ "It's Official! Kunlun Red Star joins the KHL". 25 June 2016. http://en.khl.ru/news/2016/06/25/308626.html. Retrieved 26 June 2016. 
  6. ↑ "League confirms format for 2015–16 season". 17 June 2015. http://en.khl.ru/news/2015/06/17/235081.html. Retrieved 4 July 2015. 
  7. ↑ "Club-by-club – the Bobrov Division". 16 August 2016. http://en.khl.ru/news/2016/08/16/314273.html. Retrieved 14 September 2016. 
  8. ↑ "Club-by-club – the Tarasov Division". 17 August 2016. http://en.khl.ru/news/2016/07/15/310345.html. Retrieved 14 September 2016. 
  9. ↑ "Club-by-club – the Kharlamov Division". 18 August 2016. http://en.khl.ru/news/2016/07/15/310345.html. Retrieved 14 September 2016. 
  10. ↑ "Club-by-club – the Chernyshev Division". 19 August 2016. http://en.khl.ru/news/2016/08/19/315848.html. Retrieved 14 September 2016. 

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